Shome Dasgupta's Blog

Short Story Collection


Atchafalaya Darling  (Belle Point Press)
There’s so much tenderness in these stories, all wrapped in vibrantly bubbling scenes and conversations. Dasgupta cares about all these characters and it shows all over the pages and pulls a reader in.

—Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

Journal Publications

Fiction:

“Tools For An Excavation,” Stoneboat Literary Journal (2024)
“Perhaps A Butterfly,” Isele Magazine (2024)
“Four Oranges,” Gooseberry Pie (2024)
“The Light Of The Voice,” Ghost Parachute (2024)
“Valet Parking,” Inkfish Magazine (2024)
“Wren Or Robin,” Call Me [Brackets] (2024)
“A Bit Of The Night,” Wensum Literary Magazine (2024)
“A Familiar Frottoir,” Scrawl Place (2024)

Poetry:

“Constellations: Broken French Bengali Broke English,” Ghudsavar (2024)
“Us Cajun South Brown Folk,” The Emerson Review (Volume 53, 2024)
“The Bed Of Spanish Lake,” Louisiana Literature (41.2, 2024)
“Seasons Of The Mind,” Louisiana Literature (41.2, 2024)
“Abecedarian For The Sacred Roux,” Dust Poetry Magazine (2024)“
Mist Over Meadow,” Poetry South (2024)“
Bayou Bengali Recipe,” Poetry South (2024)
“Louisiana Longitudes And Latitudes,” Where Meadows (2024)
“The Corner Table Of The World,” Where Meadows (2024)
“Mullet Memories,” Stanchion (Issue 17, 2024)
“Descendants” Porch Literary Magazine (2024)
“Twirling Dandelions,” Stone Circle Review (2024)
“A Rabbit Under The Sun,” The Chakkar (2024)
“Kolkata Crawfish Claws,” The Chakkar (2024)
“Two Dinner Tables,” The Chakkar (2024)
“Only The Cow Knew,” Susurrus (2024)
“Down Smede Road,” Susurrus (2024)
“The Lost Saris Of Crawfish Season,” The Eunoia Review (2024)
“Chandelier Palaces,” Wasteland Review (2024)
“Tiresias Up The Bayou,” Wasteland Review (2024)
“Plastic Rivers,” Centaur (2024)
“An Ocean Between Markets,” Prose Poems (Issue 4, 2024)
“Acadiana Rickshaws,” Prose Poems (Issue 4, 2024)

Creative Nonfiction:

“Playlist For Atchafalaya Darling,” Largehearted Boy (2024)
“Notable Books Read In 2024,” Heavy Feather Review (2024)
“Chasing Royalty,” Wig-Wag (2024)
“Running Through My Head,” Cable Street (2024)
“Thanksgiving Pizza,” Cable Street (2024)
“So Happy,” Stereo Stories (2024)
“Spectrums Of A Universe,” Fiery Scribe Review (2024)
“Kolkata Chameleon,” The Hooghly Review (2024)

 My collection of Louisiana themed short stories, Atchafalaya Darling, is now available for pre-order from Belle Point Press. Please click here for more information.

There’s so much tenderness in these stories, all wrapped in vibrantly bubbling scenes and conversations. Dasgupta cares about all these characters and it shows all over the pages and pulls a reader in.

—Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

In Shome Dasgupta's latest collection, the dream-like world of South Louisiana shimmers through one of its most original voices. Atchafalaya Darling contains local music scenes, crumbling homes, and creature comforts amid the convergence of wild hopes and rural spaces. Each story navigates the nature of memory, lost or found, sprinkled like spice into the red of the crawfish. While this collection often portrays immense grief—whether from hurricane winds or splintered dreams—​each character clings to a love for place and the people who make it home. Atchafalaya Darling is an homage to Cajun culture, providing ten glimpses into this region like a series of faded Polaroid pictures held under the sun.

Atchafalaya Darling, by Shome Dasgupta

**PRE-ORDER** 

Forthcoming Publication Date: July 9, 2024

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Pre-orders receive a free copy of Prose #15 by Shome Dasgupta or another Prose Series installment of your choice—please let Belle Point Press know in the order notes.*

My prose collection, Histories Of Memories, is now available for pre-order from Belle Point Press. Please click here for more information.

In the vulnerable, gorgeously written, and brilliantly illustrated Histories of Memories, Shome Dasgupta offers the reader an unflinching account of love and loss, failure and redemption, pleasure and pain. Dasgupta layers locations, Kolkata, Edmonton, Munich, with soundtracks, Dr. Dolittle, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Magnolia, and family, mother, father, uncle, brother, with friends, lifelong and long gone, a mixtape filled with his distinctive lyricism. On this carefully curated journey, where he sometimes takes our hands, leading us along winding paths, and other times flings us far out into space or drops us deep into a swirl of firing synapses, Dasgupta is always pushing us and himself to uncover, discover, recover meaning and, ultimately, memory.

—Melissa Llanes Brownlee, author of Hard Skin and Kahi and Lua

Memories can coax and soothe. They can break us in an instant, or help to heal deep wounds. It makes no difference if they are whole or fragmented; memories pull us around in time, whether we’re prepared for that journey or not, and bring us straight back into the sounds and tastes and feelings and dreams that make us who we are. That’s exactly the force harnessed by Shome Dasgupta’s new collection of stories, Histories of Memories. Page by page, these stories transport, restore, nourish, and remind. They bring us chocolates and curries, mud and family, songs and sights from all over the planet. More than anything, they show us humanity. And for that, for this author, I am truly grateful.

—Jack B. Bedell, author of Against the Woods’ Dark Trunks, Poet Laureate of Louisiana, 2018-2019

Description:

This hybrid collection of short prose pieces and Elliott Smith-inspired illustrations carries readers along a thin thread of memory—whether their own or the author’s past, it becomes difficult to say. Shome Dasgupta’s latest book recalls days at the movies, family heartache, and other personal experiences through soundtracks, daydreams, and attempts to remember what lingers from the spectrums of time. Whether pondering the vulnerability of a turtle or reflecting on his own fragilities, Dasgupta’s dreamy prose lets us into a series of fragments that depict a world broken yet beautiful. Histories of Memories is a testament to the burdens as well as the delights of our own narratives—how they keep us tied to each other whether we realize it or not.

 My novel, The Muu-Antiques, is now available for pre-order from Malarkey Books. Please click here for more information.

 My novel, Tentacles Numbing, is now available for pre-order from Thirty West Publishing House. Please click here for more information.

 My novel, Cirrus Stratus, is now available for pre-order from Spuyten Duyvil. Please click here for more information. 

 

Tentacles Numbing, a novel, will be published by Thirty West Publishing House.

 Iron Oxide is now available from various online venues.

Spectacles is now available from Word West Press.

 

Spectacles is now available for pre-order from Word West Press.

 

"Her Garden Her Earth," Middle House Review

"Yonder Years Ago," Fractured Lit
"A Catalytic Tilt," Fractured Lit
"Such Velocity," Fractured Lit
"A Distance Of Thunder," Fractured Lit





















"Pretty Day," Flash Boulevard
"A Delicate Clef," Flash Boulevard
"Fission And Fusion," Flash Boulevard
"Days Of Sunlit Marigolds," Flash Boulevard









"A Brief Introduction To Memory," Reservoir Road













"Solar Drifts," Nurture









"A Kolkata Dream," New World Writing






"Excerpts From My Memory," Schuylkill Valley Journal

"When Once I Was Gone," Semicolon Literary Magazine